Pamela Horn

The Rural World 1780-1850

Social Change in the English Countryside

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, first published in 1980, the author draws a vivid picture of what country life was like for the vast majority of English villagers - agricultural labourers, craftsmen and small farmers - during a period of rapid agricultural development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781138733909
• ISBN-10: 1138733903
• Artikelnr.: 69949121

Autorenporträt

Pamela Horn

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgements
1. The Rural Community at the End of the Eighteenth Century 2. The Pressures of War 3. The Post-War Period 4. The Relief of the Poor 5. Village Institutions 6. Crime and Punishment 7. Politics and Protectionism: 1830s-1850s 8. The Rural Community in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Appendices
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index